Now Doc Rivers says that the Los Angeles Clippers first found out that Paul wanted to be traded to the Houston Rockets from Paul’s agent.

“We met with (Paul), but he didn’t tell us,” Rivers told The Undefeated. “We just met with him and then his agent told us. Listen, it wasn’t like it was hard to figure it out. … We met. We had a very good meeting overall. The main reason he left was because of James Harden. He went down the road with this team and it didn’t work. He wanted to try it with another team. Contractually, it was going to be close enough.”

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The trade that sent Paul to the Rockets for Patrick Beverley, Lou Williams, Sam Dekker and a 2018 first-round draft pick exposed plenty of drama in L.A.